Sentences with phrase «western cultural life»

Opper chose to paint as if art history was a long game, which calls to mind an idea Jacques Barzun floated in his summary volume, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life.

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present.

Richard John Neuhaus asks after reading Jacques Barzun's new book, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, «Where does Jacques Barzun stand?»

Not exact matches

Apostle Howard W. Hunter was president of the Polynesian Cultural Center (Hawaii), and director of Beneficial Life Insurance Co., of Continental Western Life Insurance Co., of Deseret Federal Savings and Loan, of First Security Bank of Utah, of First Security Corp., of Heber J. Grant & Co., of PHA Life Insurance Co. (Oregon), of Watson Land Co. (Los Angeles), and of Western American Life Insurance Co..

If you haven't noticed, Christianity has been beating a steady retreat from the cultural and moral center of Western public life.

At the same time, they are hesitant to adopt Western values to the extent that individualism becomes the most important cultural ideal, and consumerism becomes the defining modus operandi for all walks of life.

Those of us living and serving here need churches that are interested in ministering with us amid the cultural diversity of Western Europe.

By this I simply mean that we live during the period of modernity — that period of Western cultural history that began with the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and continues into the present.

The writer, Bill Sakovich, is a professional translator of Japanese to English who's lived in Japan for two decades or so, who married a Japanese woman, and who just loves Japanese culture in general — in many of his cultural posts, for example, he suggests that the more typical Japanese approach to religion, while seemingly shallow, contradictory, and form - obsessed, makes a lot of sense to him, and indeed, is superior to Western ways.

Thanks to intolerance of caste structure, converts especially in the North had to be organized in Mission Compounds where the cultural ethos of community life was that of the western missionaries.

Recently Western modern theologies heavily dependent upon modern philosophical (epistemological or other) concepts for theological interpretations; and this trend, too, neglected the religio - cultural and intellectual life of Asian peoples for theology, while claiming universality of Western theologies.

In the Western countries, including the United States, Muslims are struggling to reconcile their traditional belief that the Sharia embraces all of life, including politics, with the religious and cultural pluralism of the modern state.

The majority of people living in the developing world are still deeply attached to their cultural traditions and universal human values which western civilization has deconstructed, such as the family, male and female complementarity, and the role of woman as mother and educator.

Too often the missionaries did impose a Western life style on their converts and in recent years African and Asian Christians have tried to recover their cultural heritage.

In the process of the encroachment of Western powers and their culture into Asia, the people are being denied their own cultural roots; their cultural self - determination and identity are eroded to the extent that their community is devoid of cultural life.

Prior to this discovery, in most western industrialized countries SIDS rates ranged between approximately 1.5 to 4 infants per 1000 live births (compared to industrialized counties in Asia, such as Japan, which has the lowest SIDS rates in the world,.05 infants per 1000 live births21) with enormous increases amongst minorities, especially impoverished indigenous peoples such as the Maori of New Zealand, the Cree of Northern Canada, and the Aborigines of Australia.19, 22,23 Native peoples in the United States demonstrated similar exponentially increased SIDS (or SUDI rates, see below), as much as two to seven the times the rates found amongst white Americans.13, 19 Despite significant declines among almost all cultural and / or ethnic groups, SIDS rates still remain the leading cause of death for infants between one month and one year of life in the United States and elsewhere.13

Cultural psychologists have long argued that people living in Western cultures show a rather distinctive pattern of self - beliefs, compared to those who live in other parts of the world.

WPIE is a holistic «dietary lifestyle» — it is not a diet; rather, it's a way of life — based on an integration of ancient food from 1) Eastern healing systems (such as Ayurvedic Medicine); 2) world religions and cultural traditions (from Buddhism to Yogic Nutrition, etc.); 3) and modern, Western nutritional science.

Xiu Xiu: The Sent - Down Girl hasn't always received the same critical respect as the»90s other major films about the Cultural Revolution, in part because it was harmfully assumed that director Joan Chen — who was and still is best known to the Western world for her playing Josie Packard in Twin Peaks — was not a «serious» artist whose work deserved to be considered in the same breath as that of Tian Zhuangzhuang (The Blue Kite) or Zhang Yimou (To Live).

Also, because I am not from the western part of the world, I do not have the cultural mindset that I have to move out and get into a world of debt to live on my own when I reached 18.

Come live in the Pioneer Valley and Five College Area in Western Massachusetts, which offers world - class recreational, dining, and cultural opportunities and a lower cost of living, with easy access to Boston and NYC.

Villa Danny services and facilities includes: â $ cents A full compliment of staff (1 cook, 3 butlers / maids, 1 gardener / housekeeper, 1 driver) plus 24 hour security â $ cents American breakfasts are included, and the cook will shop for guests at local market rates and prepare other required meals â $ cents Car and driver available for rental â $ cents Fresh daily fruit and flowers â $ cents Garden candlelit dinner service â $ cents Air conditioning in the main lounge area and all 4 bedrooms â $ cents Open living area / balcony with impressive sea views â $ cents Quality Balinese decorations, such as intricately carved wooded swing doors throughout â $ cents Western standard kitchen â $ cents Baby sitting service can be arranged â $ cents A full range of cultural, shopping, sporting and recreational tours (pick up from your door) can be arranged â $ cents IDD telephones, lap top hook up and fast Internet connection available â $ cents Marble floors throughout.

2008 Alex Hubbard and Oscar Tuazon, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Saint Louis / MO, USA September Show, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany Degrees of Remove: Landscape and Affect, Sculpture Center, Long Island / NY, USA Sommerakademie, Paul Klee Zentrum, Bern, Switzerland You Complete Me, Western Bridge, Seattle / WA, USA Transformational Grammar, Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy Sack of Bones (Los Angeles), Peres Projects, Los Angeles / CA, USA Group show, Dependance, Brussels, Belgium Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, Reed College, Portland / OR, USA Rendez - Vous Nowhere, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria - Gasteiz, Spain The Station (curated by Shamim Momin), Miami / FL, USA Suddenly: Where We Live Now, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Portland / OR, USA

Attia's work explores the impact of Western cultural and political capitalism on the Middle East and North Africa, and considers how this residual strain of struggle and resistance to colonisation affects Arab youth, particularly those living in the banlieues (suburbs) of France.

Ever since the conversion of this historic brick mill complex to rentable artists studios began in 2005, Western Avenue has become an integral part of the cultural life of Lowell and Greater Boston.

While many of her male peers and acquaintances with western educational background advocated their social, political, and cultural visions in public, and made their way into mainstream history, Pan Yuliang's own accounts related to major decisions on changes in her life and her artistic motivation are nowhere to be found.

Through cleverly fusing elements of Western pop art with ancient Chinese crafts, Tsai explores the dynamics of cultural exchange and complexities of modern life aesthetically, thematically and always with a humorous, whimsical twist.

June 24 - October 6, 2010 Consisting of works from the UAMA permanent collection, this exhibition focuses on woodblock prints from the nineteenth century and explores the print - making process, everyday life in pre-modern Japan, and the cultural exchange that took place between Japan and the Western world.

Despite language barriers and cultural differences, he embraced the avant - garde wherever he lived, fully absorbing western masters from Jackson Pollock and Morris Louis to Jasper Johns and other Pop Artists.

/ performances 2017 Audible Edge Festival, Tone List and Tura New Music, Perth 2016 Everyday Machines, curated by Tom Smith, Alaska Projects, Sydney 2016 NOW now series, 107 Projects, Sydney 2016 Pretty Gritty series, 107 Projects, Sydney 2016 Electrofringe: New Terrains, Top Floor at Wellington, Sydney 2014 perspectives [temporal], solo audio - visual concert, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 2014 Club Zho 111, The Bakery, Perth 2014 NOW now Festival of Arts, Sydney (as Té with Andrew Brooks) 2012 - 14 multiplicity - large - scale, dual - screen audio - visual work presented at: Perth Cultural Centre Screen Program, 2014; Test Tone, SuperDeluxe, Tokyo, Japan, 2013; Channels Video Art Festival, Melbourne, 2013; fractal shale, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts Performance Space, 2012; NOW now festival program launch, Sydney, 2012; fractal shale, Tape Projects, Melbourne, 2012 2014 Cinematic Scores, live soundtrack to Laszlo Moholy - Nagy's Lichtspiel Schwarz Weiss Grau, Perth Fringe Festival, Packenham Street Art Space, Perth 2013 International Computer Music Festival, Western Australian Museum (as Té with Andrew Brooks) 2012 - 13 consciousness - large - scale audio - visual work presented at: Nu Things, Osaka, 2013; Tape Projects, Melbourne, 2012; AV Union, Sydney, 2012; Terrace Bar, Newcastle, 2012; The Bakery, Perth, 2012 2013 Japan tour, solo audio - visual performances and as Té with Andrew Brooks, Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyo 2011 Improvised performance with Philip Zoubek and Andrew Brooks, The Loft, Cologne, Germany 2011 split mirror planes - for four instruments and four audio / visual sources, commissioned by Decibel new music ensemble — premiered at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 2010 Japan tour, solo performances, Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyo 2010 lucidity - major composition for electroacoustic ensemble: acoustic instruments, computer processing, sound synthesis and video projections performed at The Bakery, Perth

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The «museum» set forth a sort of living biography of the artist (Gaba was actually married in the Wedding Room in 2000), as well as positing a biting critique of the power of Western cultural conventions.

Her artistic language is informed by both Eastern and Western cultural influences having been bought up in Taiwan and then living for many years in the United States.